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Old School: Fix your old NES
More than a decade ago, I made this post about how to fix a NES that doesn’t want to boot games anymore for my old blog. That blog hasn’t been online since probably 2008, but I recently found the pictures… Read More ›
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Teaser: NTP Wall Clock Project
View this post on Instagram #Code completed (at least somewhat), now for the power supply and enclosure. #ntpclock #hugeclock #raspberrypi #sparkfun #funtimes A post shared by Sebastian Storholm (@sstorholm) on Nov 8, 2017 at 1:11pm PST If you’ve followed my… Read More ›
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Custom Thread Definitions in Autodesk Fusion 360 – PG Conduit Threads
I recently found the first shortcoming of Autodesk’s Fusion 360, it doesn’t have thread definitions for PG conduit threads! If you have no idea what PG conduit threads are, you’re probably not alone, they are a legacy thread definition that’s… Read More ›
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How to Factory Reset a HP Procurve / Aruba Switch – HP Networking Series Part 5
Sometimes it might be helpful to reset an HP Procurve / Aruba switch to it’s default factory config, and weirdly it took me until my 153rd installed switch (yes, I actually looked up how many I’ve installed over the years… Read More ›
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VMware Remote Console Fails on Windows 10 – How to fix it!
In vSphere 6.5 and some simultaneous updates to earlier versions, VMware moved away from NPAPI (since Google is set on killing it) and instead introduced two new consoles, the HTML5 browser console which is quite frankly horrible (especially without VMTools),… Read More ›
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Upgarding vRealize Operations Manager to 6.6
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
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Resetting vCenter Administrator Password on vCenter 6.X Appliance
Sometimes you just can’t catch a break, for example after returning from a vacation and not remembering your password for the built-in Administrator account in the vsphere.local domain for vCenter. Changing it can be a bit round-about at times, so… Read More ›
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Setting Up a Virtual NTP Server on Debian
Virtualizing NTP servers has been quite a hot topic for some time, but regardless of what some people say, you can actually virtualize NTP servers, as long as you know what you’re doing. If you examine some public NTP servers… Read More ›
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Configuring Debian to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
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Updating VMware vRealize Operations Manager Appliance
Updating appliance VMs can be a bit of daunting process since they are all usually different. vROPS (VMware vRealize Operations) is no different in that regard, but it’s a quite straightforward operation when you get understand the process.
